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17 Sep

By Darian Rashid In Agile Leadership Posted September 17, 2017

In the years I’ve been transforming organizations, a few requests get me worked up like a two-year old who skipped a nap. Two of these are, “The right process will solve our people issues” and “The right tool will solve our people and process issues.” While I agree, processes and tools are important, people are […]

10 Aug

Stabilize The Patient First

By Darian Rashid In Agile Leadership, Agile Testing, Process Posted August 10, 2017

So, I was watching one of those Trauma in the ER shows, and one phrase kept coming up: “We need to stabilize the patient before we can do anything else.” It makes me glad that some of us software developers didn’t go into medicine. If we treated patients the way we treat our code, well, […]

9 Jul

Automation Will Never Replace Exploration

By Darian Rashid In Automation, Experimentation Posted July 9, 2017

We here at Agile Ethos are obviously kind of huge fans of automation, be it test automation or otherwise. Having lived through much proverbial bloodshed and having witnessed too many large-scale applications drown in their own regression bugs, we feel our obsession is well merited. Most organizations we’ve worked with had a large chunk of the […]

20 Mar

Does Testing Add Value?

By Darian Rashid In Agile Testing, Organizational Structure, Process, Technical Skills, Vertical Slicing Posted March 20, 2017

My simple answer: “No, it does not.” Ok, before you get your nickers in a twist, I am not saying you should get rid of the Q/A team or ship a product that’s hanging together by dental floss. On the contrary, we should always ship a product of the highest quality. But despite that, I […]

5 Dec

Experimentation Means it’s OK to Fail

By Darian Rashid In Agile Leadership, Agile Roles and Responsibilities, Experimentation, Project Risk Mitigation, ScrumMaster Posted December 5, 2016

Experimentation is the key to learning and continuous learning is the core of Agile and iterative methods. A wise man once told me that we know the least about our product and the optimum process to build that product when we first start. I could never (or never wanted to) argue that point. When we […]

20 Sep

ScrumMasters are not Task Masters

By Darian Rashid In Agile Leadership, Process, ScrumMaster Posted September 20, 2016

It always bewilders me to think about the amount of teams out there who designate the ScrumMaster as a ‘Task Master’. In these teams, the ScrumMaster’s role is often seen as that of an administrator. This ScrumMaster schedules, plans and runs the meetings, including the Daily Scrum. His job is to make sure all the […]

20 Jul

Q & A is Part of the Team

By Darian Rashid In Agile Testing, Organizational Structure, Process, Technical Skills, Vertical Slicing Posted July 20, 2016

It is almost guaranteed that when I work with new organizations, one of the first questions that comes up is “How does the development organization work with the Q/A organization?” This question is a stinker. A seemingly simple question actually is pointing out much deeper organizational issues that go beyond testers to how we see […]

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